Bengaluru: Renowned educationist, founder of  Daily Salar newspaper, and former Pro-Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University, Dr Mumtaz Ahmed Khan passed away Thursday evening in Bengaluru. He was 86.

Popularly known as as ‘Baba-e-Taalim’, for his services in Education sector, Dr Mumtaz Ahmed Khan founded the Al-Ameen Educational Society in 1966.

The group now has more than 200 in Karnataka and all over the country. In Bengaluru, the Al-Ameen institution has various colleges catering to varied streams from pre-university, degree, post-graduation Institute of Management, College of Pharmacy, and Law College to the Al-Ameen College of Education.

Born on 6 September 1935 in Trichy in Tamil Nadu, Dr Khan did his MBBS at Madras University, Chennai in 1963. 

He is a recipient of several awards like Karnataka Rajyothsava award (1990), Kempegowda Award, Junior Jayees Award and Public Relation Society of India Award.

He is survived by his wife, one son, and two daughters.

Pramesh Jain

The East Division police of Ramamurthynagar  police on Thursday arrested a group of six persons including two woman who brutally tortured and violated a woman reportedly hailing from Bangladesh and recorded the video before circulating it among their friends in West Bengal and Assam.

The incident took place in Bengaluru almost six days ago.

A gut-wrenching video of the attack,which was circulated on social media,has generated immense outrage.

By following the chain of forwards,they were able to trace the origin of the video to a cell phone number in Bengaluru.

The Bengaluru city police were alerted and special teams were formed to trace the perpetrators within hours, tracked down the gang on Thursday evening.

They were arrested from a rented house at Avalahalli,Ramamurthynagar.The arrested men are reportedly labourers.

The accused perpetrators has been identified as,Sagar,Mohammed Baba Sheikh,Ridoy Babu and Hakeel all resident of Avalahalli hailing from Bangladesh.

Senior officer told reporters,we received a alert from Assam and West Bengal police regarding the horrific incident took place as the video went viral prompting the Assam and West Bengal  police to initiate investigation and later the it was  traced the source of the video to the Bengaluru city.

Based on the alert from the Assam police, Bengaluru city police Commissioner,Kamal Pant immediately rushed to Ramamurthynagar police station along with Addl CP East,S Murugan in the evening to take stock of the situation and collected all information from DCP East,Dr.SD Sharanappa.

The special teams were formed to nab the perverts who has made the video viral and based on their pictures which went viral the team traced their location and nabbed all the five member gang from a house in Avalahalli area.

The arrested accused identified Sagar, Mohammed Baba Sheikh, Ridoy Babu and Hakeel .

Initial probe revealed that the girl had some financial dispute with the accused and escaped.

The accused traced the victim and tortured her brutally and violated her before circulating the video.

The six perverts accused brutalized the women and even videographed the whole crime in their mobile phone and circulated it among their friends in Assam and West Bengal.

A official release by the Bengaluru Police,said,Based on a video clip,where in one woman was subjected to physical abuse and torture by a group of people,six culprits including a woman,visible in the clip were immediately traced and secured by Ramamurthynagar Police.

On the basis of the contents in the video clip and facts as disclosed during preliminary interrogation of the secured persons,a Suo Motto case of rape,assault and under other relevant provisions of law,has been registered against the accused in Ramamurthy Nagar Police Station.

The Bengaluru police said the woman is currently in another state and a team has been sent to trace her.Once she is back,her statement will be recorded before a magistrate.

As per the information revealed so far,all of them are part of same group and believed to be from Bangladesh.

Due to financial differences,culprits brutalized the victim,who is also said to be a Bangladeshi, brought to India for human trafficking.

Investigation is being carried out in full earnestness,under the close supervision
of senior officers a official release said.

Pramesh Jain

The Vijayapura police on Tuesday arrested a 41-year-old priest for performing pooja at the temple in Bestarapete in Vijayapura in the outskirts of the city during lockdown on Tuesday.

The police have arrested Ramakrishna,priest of Gangamma temple.

Senior officer told reporters,Nagesh,Head constable of Vijayapura station was on patrolling duty and noticed the priest had opened the temple for public and performed puja for the crowd of around 25 people .

The people were seen not wearing masks nor following social distancing norms.This is clear violations of the lockdown and the rules laid down by the government .

The police has video recorded the ritual before arresting Ramakrishnappa and others booked charging him under Karnataka Epidemic disease Act and they were later released on station bail he added.

Naresh Bhandari 

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Pramesh Jain

The West Division police of Upparpet police on tuesday arrested three persons and recovered eight stolen bikes worth Rs 7.3 lakh from them.

The accused Syed Nazim,23,Imran Shariff,21,and Saqlain Ahmed, 21 from Shivajinagar were caught during a lock down enforcement checks.

Senior officer told media persons,2 suspicious persons were detained at COVID lockdown enforcement check point in upparpet police station limits.

The police team deployed at checkpoint who were on patrolling noticed two persons who were moving suspiciously and when the police party questioned them why they are out after 10 am the duo dint gave proper information and on suspect the team detained both of them and took them to station for further questioning.

During investigation the team got suspicion on their behaviour and the team was not satisfied with their statement the crime team grilled them in police style who spilled the beans and a detailed investigation by the inspector and team led them to confess the crime.

The duo said they were moving around to target lonely people and said that on Monday he and his associates confronted,Manjunath,a 34-year-old salesman near Tulasi Park, kempegowda metro station in Upparpet and robbed his mobile phone at knife point.

Manjunath was trying to book bike on rent from his mobile,when the accused approached him on the pretext of inquiring an address and took away mobile phone worth Rs 13,000 and escaped.

Based on their statement the team arrested his associate and based on their confession the police recovered the 8 stolen bikes and a mobile phone which they had robbed from a 34 year old salesman on Monday with this the team has recovered stolen property Worth Rs.7.3 lakhs from them.

Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant has appreciated Addl CP West,Soumendhu Mukherjee,DCP West,Dr.Sanjeev M Patil,ACP,P Ravi, PI,Shivaswamy CB,PSI,Narayan,and crime staff as,Mahadevaswamy,Mahadevappa,and other crime staff has been appreciated for their exemplary work done in nabbing the trio and recovering stolen bikes and mobile phone from them and for the commendable job done by the team a suitable reward will be given to the team he added.

Pramesh Jain

The CCB officials probing the bed allotment cash for bed scam racket which was exposed by BJP MP Tejasvi Surya and other MLA’s has arrested a prime suspect Kingpin who is BJP MLA Satish Reddy close aide.

The accused has been identified as,Babu,34,resident of Roopena Agrahara.

Senior officer told media persons,
Continuing investigations into the bed allotment, the CCB officials on Tuesday arrested Babu,34, one of the prime suspects in the racket.

During investigation it was found the accused is said be close to Bommanhalli MLA,Satish Reddy,who earlier claimed to have exposed the bed allotment scam.

The team conducted a detailed probe into the matter and it was revealed that Babu,resident of Roopena Agrahara used to run the racket through Nethravathy,a social activist and Rohith Kumar who were arrested by the Jayanagar police earlier.

While Nethra and Rohith used to get the customers for the beds through thier whatsapp network,Babu used to coordinate with the bed availability and hospital details.

The accused then give them commission and keep the lion share of the money they would get from the bed allotment scam,which differ from person to person based on his financial status.

Soon after the arrest of Nethra and Rohith Babu avoided the arrest by getting admitted for covid treatment.However the CCB kept a close watch and arrested him on Tuesday.

Last week CCB team arrested accused identified as, Anthony,working as Marketing executive in Sapthagiri hospital who used to take money from patients to get bed allotted.

We produced him before the magistrate through video conference and the court has remanded him to CCB police custody till May 31 to ascertain his network and investigate more about the racket he added.

Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant,has appreciated Joint CP Crime,Sandeep Patil,DCP Crime-1,KP Ravikumar,ACPs,as, Gautam Kumar,Hanumantharaya,Parameshwar and other staff for the excellent investigation and arresting the kingpin of the Racket and a suitable reward will be given to the team he added.

Pramesh Jain

The West Division police of Kengeri police on Tuesday arrested two persons who assaulted the security guard of BGS hospital and abused the doctor and damaged the property by hurling stone at the glass doors of hospital and shattering them on Sunday

The accused has been identified as,Prashanth, 39,a driver by profession and his relative Venkatesh, 32,

Senior officer told media persons,we have arrested two persons for creating Mayhem at the BGS hospital who has damaged the hospital property and assaulted doctors and hospital staff.

The duo created ruckus after they were not allowed to visit their relative who was admitted in the hospital for covid treatment .

The duo alleged that they were not allowed to visit their relatives for the last four days and abused and beat up the security guard who stopped them from entering the hospital.

The duo later used unparliamentary language against the doctors and smashed the glass doors with a stone and created a tense situation.

The hospital authorities immediately intimated the Kengeri police inspector, Inspector Vasanth and his team rushed to the spot and nabbed to duo and took them to station for further questioning.

During investigation the accused confessed the crime and said that they engaged in assault with the hospital staff and doctors as they were not allowing them in to meet a relative. They have been booked for a case of assault,vandalising hospital property and also under sections of the NDMA and further investigation is on.

Pramesh Jain

The West Division police of Vijayanagar police on Tuesday booked a private hospital for denying treatment to a 64-year-old covid patient after she refused to buy the Remdesivir injection offered by the hospital at Rs.15,000 per each shot and later sourced it from the health department.

Upset About the fact that the family complained  to the health department,the hospital discharged the patient and later refused to readmit her after she developed health complications.

The matter was brought to the notice of the health officer BBMP, Dr.Rajendra,who in turn filed a complaint after taking stock of the situation with the jurisdictional Vijayanagar police seeking legal action against the hospital authorities.

Senior officer told reporters,based on the complaint,the Vijayanagar police registered a case against Bharathy Hospital situated in Prashanthnagar.

Dr Rajendra in his complaint said that the victim Gouramma of JP Nagar was admitted to Bharathy hospital on May 8 after she was tested Covid positive .

The hospital demanded RS.15,000 from the family to give Remdesivir injection to the patient.

Since the family could not afford it,they sought the help of BBMP for assistance who in turn arranged the injection through the drug inspector of the area concerned.

The hospital staff,agitated that the family had complained against them,the staff discharged the patients the next day without treatment and also mentioned in the discharge summary that the patient has recovered.

Soon after returning home the patient developed breathing problems and were taken back to the Bharathy hospital where they refused to admit .

The family approached the BBMP again and took the patient to another hospital he said in his complaint.

The Vijayanagar police have booked the Bharathy Hospital charging the hospital management under Essential Commodities Act and also under section 308 (Attempt To commit culpable homicide)of IPC and are investigating it further he added.